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Aseem is a graduate of Conrad Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology Center, Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada. He also holds a masters in computers application from Guru Nanak Dev University, Punjab, India. On Opensource.com, he serves as an author. He also blogs at http://aseemsharma.info/.
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Thanks for the insightful feedback Robin and W Anderson. In India too, the state of Kerala announced its official support of open source software in 2001 in its state I.T policy. That was the year when Richard Stallman inaugurated Free Software Foundation of India. Since then the government has been very active in launching open source projects state wide. One of the projects was IT@ School Project which used Linux based systems:
https://www.itschool.gov.in/
Very insightful article Carolyn. There are ample resources online that give women and youth an opportunity to learn code. Libraries can provide access to those online resources and play a vital role in bridging the divide. Libraries, however need to open up. I think the government sector also needs to empower libraries to respond to this situation, especially in terms of expanding their budgets.
On the same note, I recently came across the following resource that teaches women to understand technology and the digital world in a very effective manner:
http://railsgirls.com/